While saw blades tend to look similar, there are two common types that are useful for a wide variety of jobs -- crosscut and rip-cut saws. Which do you need?

A cross-cut saw is a two-person tool, roughly 6 feet long and sporting teeth that would do any predator proud. The cutting edge is angled at an alternating pattern on each tooth to make it more ...

Tooth pattern. Big teeth spaced far apart give a rough cut, such as when you’re ripping through softwood boards. On the other end of the scale, lots of small, fine teeth would get clogged up ...

you can see the-- sorry, a cross-cut saw. you can see those teeth there. look at that, those brutal teeth. this was standard world war i issue, a chainsaw.

We'd been using crosscut saws for more than a millennium when the glitzy chainsaw became available to homeowners in the 1970s. It's time to give the old standard another chance.

The trick, he explained, was to only pull the saw. He pulled it toward him, but let it ride free as Long pulled it back. He pulled it into the trunk on the teeth-side of the saw, while novices ...